Category : Babies Are Cute and Annoying

When I was a new mother, I had several people make comments to me comparing their new puppy to my newborn human, person. This never made me angry, as it does some people, but it certainly made me a little “eye-rolly.” While I have never owned any dogs, at the time I had been around them enough to know that …

Well, it’s that time of the week when I have no energy or creativity left, so I’m digging in to the archives of my old blog. I found a post I wrote in January of 2009 when my oldest was five months old. Even though babies grow at such a fast rate, at the time, it seemed to me that …

I’m feeling a bit lazy this week, and perhaps a little nostalgic, so here’s a post I wrote for my previous blog about baby’s first Christmas after our first child was born. He was only four months old, and as new parents, we were very excited for this momentous occasion. Shockingly, it didn’t go quite how a new parent might …

I live in a college town. The older I get, the more the college students invading my roads and grocery stores and restaurants irritates me. If I have to walk past one more group of self-involved young women saying the word “literally” literally every five seconds, in between taking selfies and checking their Facebook news feeds, my head might figuratively explode. They drive me nuts, but I …

With my son’s birthday fast approaching, it’s getting me a little nostalgic. Just a little. It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been taking care of another human being for almost seven years (not counting my husband). Some days I love how independent my children are getting, so proud of their accomplishments, big or small. Other days, I long for …